News/Canada/British Columbia (Page 10)

British Columbia Indie rock band The New Pornographers, which was formed in Vancouver in the 90s, said members were “absolutely shocked, horrified and devastated” to learn of the arrest and charges against Joe Seiders. The band says it has “severed all ties with him.” Band says it’s ‘shocked’ and hasContinue Reading

British Columbia The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports, examined environmental DNA to determine the levels of bacteria, fungi and viruses previously shown to be harmful to wild salmon. B.C. Salmon Farming Association says study’s results are overblown Maryse Zeidler · CBC News · Posted: Apr 17, 2025Continue Reading

British Columbia The owners of a golf course in West Kelowna say they are demanding restitution from those involved in a physical altercation on their course earlier this week — an incident they describe as a desecration of the property and a breach of community values. A witness says tempers flaredContinue Reading

WARNING: This story discusses violence against Indigenous women and girls and may affect those who have experienced it or know someone who has. Years after the bodies of two young Indigenous women and an Indigenous girl were separately discovered across Metro Vancouver in disturbing circumstances, investigations into how the Vancouver PoliceContinue Reading

British Columbia Rogelio Bagabuyo is charged with first-degree murder in the March 2022 death of Mohd Abdullah, a Thompson Rivers University science professor. Crown tells jury Rogelio ‘Butch’ Bagabuyo owed victim Mohd Abdullah large sum of money Bagabuyo, a former member of the B.C. Law Society, is accused of killingContinue Reading

British Columbia Canadians have sharply curtailed vacation plans south of the border in recent weeks amid an ongoing tariff war with the United States, a comparatively weak dollar, reports of travellers being detained by U.S. officials, and Trump openly musing about annexing the country. Gavin Newsom released video urging CanadiansContinue Reading

British Columbia·New In early March, Mike de Jong was “informally advised” that he had been rejected as the Conservative candidate for the newly created riding of Abbotsford-South Langley. The party instead chose to run Sukhman Gill, a 25-year-old Langley blueberry farmer, and de Jong announced he would be running asContinue Reading

British Columbia Universal Ostrich’s entire flock of about 400 birds was ordered culled in February by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency after H5N1 avian flu was detected in December — but the farm managed to get its birds a stay of execution until the court could rule on the merits of the cull order.Continue Reading

British Columbia While the crisis is intensely personal for those who have lost people they care about — children, parents, partners, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, friends, co-workers — it’s also become a point of political tension, as leaders try to figure out the best way to address toxic drug deaths inContinue Reading